[Divan-i Sami ba hatt-ı İsmail Bosnevi eş-şehir bes hoş] - [ديوان سامى با خط اسمعيل بسنوى الشهير بس خوش]

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 7194
  • Dates of Creation
    • Late 18th century
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 112 ff Materials : Paper. Foliation : Western, 112 ff. Dimensions : 239 mm x 131 mm. Ruling : Gold-ruled columns. Script : Nastaliq. Inks : Mainly black with headings in gold. Binding : Gold-tooled binding.

Scope and Content

This volume contains the collected poetry of Mustafa Sami Arpaeminizade. The work begins with na't and kasideler, followed by a nazire on a poem by Ruhi (f 6v); münacat (ff 9v-10r); a bahariye in praise of Sultan Ahmet III (f 10r); a temmuziye (f 15v); a terciibent (f 18v); kasideler, some of which are in praise of Şehit Ali Paşa and Mehmet Paşa, and some mesneviler. The remaining sections are chronograms (ff 61v-77v) ending with a terciibent; gazeller (ff 79-108v); murabbaat (ff 108v-109v); elğaz (ff109v-110r); rubaiyat and kıt'alar (ff 110r-111r); and ebyat (ff 111r-112r). The text contains two unvans and folios 1 and 2 are decorated with a floral design. There is no colophon to confirm the note on f 1r that the manuscript was copied by İsmail Bosnevi, but there are two dates - 1198 AH (1783-84 CE) (in a seal) and 1199 AH (1784-85 CE).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Bequethed by E. J. W. Gibb in 1901.

Related Material

Another copy of the Divan can be found at Or 7195 text 2. For the author's Munşeat, see Or 12735. For more information on the poet, please see OM II, p. 232; Salim, p. 331; Fatin, p. 181; HOP IV, p. 58; GO, pp. 270-71; and Kutlar, Fatma Sabiha, 'Mustafa Sâmi Bey: Osmanlı vak'anüvisi, şair,' Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Last accessed: 12 August 2021. https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/mustafa-sami-bey.

Bibliography

Mustafa Sami, Arpaeminizade, Divan-i Sami (Bulaq: Matbaa-i Bulak, 1252 [1837]).